Bizarre! British surgeon burns initials into two patients' livers

LONDON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A British surgeon has done the unthinkable: burn his initials into his patients' livers while they were unconscious, the Telegraph has reported.

Simon Bramhall, 53, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by beating after he branded "SB" into a man's and a woman's livers during their transplant surgeries in 2013, using an electric beam.

Usually the marks would just fade and cause no harm, but the woman's liver didn't heal. Doctors discovered the initials in a follow-up operation, the report said.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Tony Badenoch said this is a "highly unusual and complex case" and so far has no legal precedent, the report said.

Bramhall has been a liver, spleen and pancreas surgeon for 12 years at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, West Midlands. He hit the headlines in 2010 after he transplanted a liver saved from a burning aircraft into a patient.